Translation examples
We poets are not, as Oppen would say, coeval with each other, let alone our readers.
Wir Dichter sind nicht, wie Oppen sagen würde, Zeitgenossen voneinander, geschweige denn die unserer Leser.
He felt that anyone who had ever paused before the lamp as he was pausing was briefly coeval with him, that they were all watching the same turbulent point in their respective present tenses.
Er hatte das Gefühl, dass jeder, der jemals vor der Lampe stehen geblieben war, so wie er nun davor stehen blieb, für kurze Zeit ein Zeitgenosse von ihm war, dass sie alle in ihrer jeweiligen Gegenwart denselben unruhigen Punkt betrachteten.
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